World History in the Atomic Age: Past, Present and Future in the Political Thought of Jawaharlal Nehru

Purushotham, Sunil

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“…For Pictet, this required first legally reconfiguring and then making real a distinctive international legal discipline consisting out of "fundamental principles," "guardians," "unique origins," and other invented traditions, which have deeply shaped our understandings of humanitarian law and human rights, as well as their historical relationship. 179 Second, these stories show, too, that despite the immense controversy surrounding CA3's making, the ICRC carried on with its agenda of combining human rights thinking with internationalizing internal armed conflicts. It often went much further than its newly updated codebook strictly allowed for, using vernacular human rights norms as a means to pressure states to treat detainees more humanely, regardless of their legal exclusion, or other legal barriers.…”

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Human Rights in War: On the Entangled Foundations of the 1949 Geneva Conventions

Dijk

2018

Am. j. int. law

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The relationship between human rights and humanitarian law is one of the most contentious topics in the history of international law. Most scholars studying their foundations argue that these two fields of law developed separately until the 1960s. This article, by contrast, reveals a much earlier cross-fertilization between these disciplines. It shows how “human rights thinking” played a critical generative role in transforming humanitarian law, thereby creating important legacies for today's understandings of international law in armed conflict.

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Human Rights in War: On the Entangled Foundations of the 1949 Geneva Conventions

Dijk

2018

Am. j. int. law

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“…"He posited political action, and even life itself, as a dynamic act of mediation between the past, present and future." 78 Further, Nehru also believed in the Hegelian notion of the state as the "locus and signifying agent" in history, in a world experiencing the crisis of European civilization and when freedom itself was being renegotiated. 79 The achievement and maintenance of the nation-state was the maintenance of Indian agency.…”

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Removing the International from the Refugee: India in the 1940s

Kapoor¹

2021

Humanity

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Such a union can have nothing to do with imperialism or fascism and must be based on the fullest democracy and freedom, each nation having autonomy within its borders, and submitting in international matters to the union legislature to which it sends its representatives.1 -Jawaharlal Nehru, June 1939 At the end of March 1942, congress party leader Jawaharlal Nehru would dine with Sir Stafford Cripps, head of the British delegation designated to find a version of selfdetermination for Indian people that would also rally Indian nationalists to the cause of the Second World War. Cripps' report of the meeting highlights a concern that is not usually thought of with regard to India's road to independence or even the international dimensions of the famed Quit India movement. The conversation had left him with the impression that the negative attitude towards the war was, in a large part, because of 'the treatment of Indian refugees coming from the eastern seaboard to the central districts in comparison to the treatment of refugees.' 1 Nehru had spent some of that year in Assam, witnessing first-hand a difference in refugee experience that he saw as the inequality inherent in Empire. 2 In August of that same year, the Quit India resolution, largely authored by Nehru, would outline how India's freedom was a precondition both to voluntary participation in the war as well as the first step to overcoming racial hierarchy an equal World Federation that could maintain peace. The refugee, it would seem, had served as an embodiment of the predicament of India's national position in a changing world order.Indian visions of the International Order were closely tied to nationalism and extended beyond the Congress' realisation of the disadvantages of functioning as a junior partner in the British internationalist machine. A new internationalism had to be created for

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“…As new scholarship on the intellectual worlds of anti-imperialism is increasingly showing, decolonization expressed multiple temporal horizons that complicate this rupture narrative and force us to think more carefully about the pre-histories, teleologies, and afterlives of self-determination. 4 On the one hand, decolonization was profoundly future-orientated. The 'world-making' that Adom Getachew has pointed to in the Afro-Caribbean internationalism of the mid-twentieth century had precedents in the anti-colonial internationalism of South Asian movements.…”

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The Limits of Decolonisation in India’s International Thought and Practice: An Introduction

Raghavan

Bayly

Leake

et al. 2022

The International History Review

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This special section responds to the call for renewed attention to the international implications of decolonization with a particular focus on India and the South Asia region. The section offers insights into historical continuities and ruptures in Indian internationalism, interrogating divides between colonial and postcolonial as well as between national and international. In turn, it de-centres histories of global order-making in the twentieth century, building on the work of a growing chorus of international historians, political scientists, and international relations scholars seeking alternative visions of the international in an increasingly multipolar world order. In challenging the binary rupture of India's international outlook in the pre-and post-independence period, this special section forces us to reconsider the temporal landscape of India's decolonisation moment. Through an avowedly international outlook, many of the papers introduce new spaces, connections, and entanglements through which Indian independence was realised, and in turn through which the scales of the international can be scrutinised. This brief introduction introduces the papers, teasing out the wider themes that link them, and their connections with the broader purposes of the special section itself.

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World History in the Atomic Age: Past, Present and Future in the Political Thought of Jawaharlal Nehru

Cited by 11 publications

References 35 publications

Human Rights in War: On the Entangled Foundations of the 1949 Geneva Conventions

Human Rights in War: On the Entangled Foundations of the 1949 Geneva Conventions

Removing the International from the Refugee: India in the 1940s

The Limits of Decolonisation in India’s International Thought and Practice: An Introduction

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